Word: explaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impression of loss of courage by the entire society. Of course there are many courageous individuals but they have no determining influence on public life. Political and intellectual bureaucrats show depression, passivity and perplexity in their actions and in their statements and even more so in theoretical reflections to explain how realistic, reasonable as well as intellectually and even morally warranted it is to base state policies on weakness and cowardice. And decline in courage is ironically emphasized by occasional explosions of anger and inflexibility on the part of the same bureaucrats when dealing with weak governments and weak countries...
...financial aid office plans a meeting this fall for all new students on financial aid and another just for new foreign students on financial aid to explain the different programs. Lyman says the key to negotiating her office is not to come in the beginning of the year when the office is swamped with students, but to make an appointment with a financial aid officer. Maguire says notices of work-study eligibility will be mailed scon, and work-study job openings are already beginning to come into his office.CrimsonLisa C. HsiaYour money or your life...
...Egypt a 26-point peace plan for the West Bank and Gaza, together with a promise at least to return the Sinai to Egyptian sovereignty. Washington judged the plan "a fair basis for negotiation," but did not fully endorse it. Instead, Carter asked the Israelis to explain what status they envisioned for the West Bank and Gaza at the end of the plan's five-year transition period. Jerusalem's vaguely worded reply merely promised that Israel would be willing to negotiate "the nature of the future relations between the parties" after the transition...
...compleat swimmer. Caulkins beat Tauber by an astonishing seven seconds, finishing nearly half a pool length in the lead. In the 200-meter medley, Caulkins smoothly shaved 1.02 seconds off her own world mark. Too nearsighted to see the Scoreboard, she had to get a teammate to explain the reason for the crowd's roar...
...Bobby seems to have been honestly bewildered by this question up to the moment of the assassination that he expected ("Sooner or later," he told one friend, "sooner or later"). Schlesinger's Manichaean fable of a lonely R.F.K. crossing swords with the forces of darkness does not fully explain the passions that this remarkable politician stirred...